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Chanticleer tours California's mission era music
Special to The TimesMOST California schoolchildren learn the basic facts about the state's mission history in the fourth grade. Established from 1769 to 1823 by Franciscan monks from Spain to spread the Roman Catholic faith among the area's Native American population, the...Tags: Spain, Music, Entertainment, Pentecost, History
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The ballad of a classic guitar shop
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMost Southland music fans know McCabe's Guitar Shop for the innumerable folk, country, blues, jazz and world-music concerts presented over the decades in the tiny back stockroom that can hold about 150 folding chairs when all the instrument cases are...Tags: Los Lobos (music group), Nick Lowe, Family, Linda Ronstadt, Music Theater
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All together now
You know a nation is in trouble when the worst epithet its citizens can hurl at each other is the title of a folk song: "Kumbaya," an African American spiritual whose name (and chorus) translates from the Gullah dialect as "come by here." It has had...Tags: Career and Workplace, George W. Bush, Political Candidates, Carly Simon, Elections
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Pop music and jazz figures
Pop music and jazz figures Bob Popescu, 77; co-owner of Catalina Bar & Grill, turned the Los Angeles club into one of the top jazz venues in the country (Jan. 5) Ken Nelson, 84; longtime Capitol Records talent scout had an ear for country music (Jan. 6)...Tags: Blues (genre), Isaac Hayes, The Beach Boys, Television Industry, Carmen Miranda
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In China, Echoes of the Past
Times Staff WriterXILINHOT, China — Video recorder in hand, Wang Hong sat inside a small stone-and-brick house with one of China's aging musical masters — a Mongolian vocalist named Hajab who once sang his region's ancestral melodies for Chairman Mao Tse-tung....Tags: Archaeology, Culture, Mountains, Nanjing (China), Vehicles
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Finally, a chance to picket (in a virtual way)
There were certain experiences I knowingly sacrificed by enrolling at Stanford: joining a secret society, going to a national football championship game, having sex. I also assumed that in exchange for a white-collar job, I'd never get to go on strike....Tags: Dancing, Career and Workplace, Clubs and Associations, Sony Corp., Strikes
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Major festivals, events around the world
Here is a selected list of events for 2006. For more information on an event, plug its name into your favorite search engine. All dates and events are subject to change, so check before going. February Ottawa: Winterlude, Feb. 3-19 (weekends). The...Tags: Chicago Air and Water Show, Cartoons, Multi-Sport Events, Art Basel, Abril
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Jypsi: A family band's breakthrough plans
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE STAR-MAKING machine in Nashville does a lot of things well, but nurturing musicians who work outside the box isn't one of them. In the 1950s, Buddy Holly was rebuffed when he first recorded there, and Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings spent most of...Tags: Dixie Chicks (music group), Sugarland (music group), Family, Jessica Simpson, Radio
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Davey Graham dies at 68; trailblazing British guitarist
Davey Graham, a trailblazing British guitarist of folk and blues who influenced such performers as Paul Simon and guitarist Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, died of lung cancer Dec. 15 at his home in London. He was 68. Graham's guitar instrumental "Anji"...Tags: Jimmy Page, Michael Gordon, Sonny Rollins, England, PBS (tv network)
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Bronfman plays Salonen's Piano Concerto
Times Music CriticOn Feb. 1, 2007, the New York Philharmonic premiered Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Piano Concerto, his most ambitious orchestral score. The Big Apple's skeptical concert-goers and critics, proudly sporting their late-model flashiness detectors, responded with...Tags: Walt Disney, BBC, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Industry, Balkan Peninsula
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Hayes Carll comes in from the cold
Special to The TimesNASHVILLE -- Hayes Carll, 32, arranges his long limbs around a high-top table in the bar of a trendy Nashville restaurant. He's clearly out of place, but frequenting these locales comes with the new visibility he's earned as one of the most talked about...Tags: Steve Earle, Waylon Jennings, Music Industry, Festive Events, Entertainment
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